Grave Intentions – Trade Paperback Edition

Rodney’s life started to spiral out of control after the untimely death of his beloved wife. He ended up on the rough streets: fighting for his sanity, his next fix and feeding himself. But it was his hunger for getting high and trying to forget his former life that was the hardest for him to control. Or at least he thought. Then came the night when he and another junkie walked into Parkside Cemetery, dug up the dead body of Becky Smithshire and…bit into her cold body.

That’s when Rodney’s life really changed.

Derrick, Craig, Joan and Stacy were the best of friends, if not a little more at times. Late one night before their impending first days of college, they decided to have a liquid-picnic in their local cemetery. It was supposed to be a night of laughs, booze and sex. Until Derrick came running back to his three friends, scared half to death. He started babbling about seeing something that looked like a werewolf.

Now the three friends must escape from the cemetery before the werewolf finds them and chomps them into little pieces.

Will all four friends survive? Or will the bloodline of the werewolf win the night?

Only the deepest bonds of friendship and something even greater holds the answer.

Go check out the book trailer, then head over to Amazon to purchase this 86 page atypical werewolf novella in Trade Paperback ($4.99) or Kindle ($1.99).

2012: A Look Ahead

There’s a lot going on this year, so I thought breaking down all the 2012 releases by quarter would be helpful. Remember, you can always keep up to date with past or future books in Published Works or what titles are currently available for purchase in the Storefront.

1st Quarter

Grave Intentions (novella)

For After Midnight, Cup O’ Tea Productions (audio book)

2nd Quarter

The Fields, Cup O’ Tea Productions (audio book)

Cadence In Decay (Editor), MHB Press (UK) (Anthology)

3rd Quarter

‘The K-Club’, part of These Hallowed Halls (by Mike Oliveri, Gord Rollo & Ty Schwamberger), MHB Press (UK) (novella collection)

DININ’, Bad Moon Books (novella)

‘Urban Monsoon’, Morpheus Tales Magazine (UK), Issue #17 (short story)

4th Quarter

House Call, Little Oak Film Group (feature length film)

House Call (novella)

Lonely Nights, Dark Hall Press, an imprint of New Street Communications (novella)

Note: There are some other tentative projects, but I can’t talk about them quite yet.

Just In Time For Halloween

October is going to be a busy, but exciting month. The month of creepiness will bring not one, but two book releases, that I’ve been eager to see the light of day for quite some time. Details are below.

The Fields, The Zombie Feed Press, an imprint of Apex Publications. This atypical zombie novella received rave reviews from my peers and has an introduction written by NY Times Bestseller, Jonathan Maberry. The cover art and book trailer will be posted in the coming weeks. (Update – 10/14/11: the release date will now be in November, though pre-orders should still begin in October)

For After Midnight, Naked Snake Press. This collection is filled with 18 short stories, including a bonus novelette. There’s over 80k words of terror in this badboy. The cover art and book trailer will be posted in the coming weeks.

So, as you can see, October is going to be an great month. Start saving your pennies now, ’cause I don’t take candy in exchange for books. You’ll be glad you did.

Welcome to The Fields

The Fields

Billy Fletcher learned to farm the family’s tobacco fields – and beat slaves – by the hands of his father. Now, his father is dead, the slaves have long since been freed, and the once-lush fields are dying. Salvation by the name of Abraham knocks on the farmhouse door, bringing wild ideas. He can help Billy save the plantation and return the fields to their former glory…by raising his father’s slaves from the dead.

Can the resurrected slaves breathe life back into the Fletcher farm? Having brought the slaves back from graves that his father sent them to, can Billy be the kind master his father wasn’t? Is keeping the farm worth denying the men the freedom they earned with death?

Billy’s conscience holds the key to those mysteries, but not the biggest one: what does Abraham really want from the former slave owner’s son?

Welcome to The Fields.

 

Coming in October from The Zombie Feed Press, an imprint of Apex Publications.

Note: A trailer for the novella will be posted in a few weeks.

Online Serial Short Story – Part III

The final installment, ‘The Wolf’, of ‘The Panther, the Lion, and the Wolf’ has been posted on Orion’s Child Magazine.  As mentioned before, this is a zombie tale co-written with Penny Mason. 

If you didn’t read the first two parts: click  here, then here.

For After Midnight

I’m pleased to announce that Naked Snake Press has picked up my short story collection — For After Midnight.  This 80k word collection is filled with stories about: the dark woods, the desert, a graveyard and the dark streets, where monsters and strange creatures run amok.  The other half of this collection tells about characters driven to the brink of insanity, coping with the loss of loved ones, spousal abuse and fighting crime on the mean city streets.

The tentative release date is October 2011 and will be made available in Trade Paperback and ebook.

Brain Munchers Beware!

Apex Book Company, which is also known as Apex Publications, is a small press publisher dedicated to producing exemplary works of science fiction, horror, fantasy and non-fiction.  Based out of Lexington, Kentucky, Apex Book Company is owned and operated by Jason B. Sizemore.

Their current catalog includes anthologies like the highly-acclaimed Dark Faith, novels and novellas like The Labyrinth of the Dead, non-fiction books like To Each Their Darkness and their ever-popular Apex Magazine.

With the company’s recent distribution deal with Diamond, Jason has completed a reorganization of the business into 4 arms: Apex Publications (which will have national distribution), a new imprint called Black Room Publications (under which my zombie novella, The Fields, will be released later this summer), award winning Apex Magazine & the imprint The Zombie Feed – for which I’ll be the Managing Editor going forward.

You can read the official announcement on the Apex blog.

Brain munchers beware, I’m now on the hunt…

Get Twisted…some more!

Twisted Tales from the Torchlight Inn, is a 3-novella collection by Thomas A. Erb, Dean Harrison and Myself.  It contains the novellas: ‘Tones of Home’ (Erb), ‘Off Limits’ (Harrison) & ‘Last Night Out’ (Myself).  The Trade Paperback was released in January of this year, followed by the ebook (Kindle & Nook) a few months after.

Tom, Dean & Myself are now happy to announce that the price of the ebooks for Kindle & Nook have been reduced to a reasonable $2.99!

Guidance from the Dark Scribe – July 2011

You can read my article, ‘When it’s NOT Writer’s Block’, in Issue #13 of Morpheus Tales’ Supplement Edition by clicking here

This is actually the last atricle I’ll be writing for this particular column.  Hope you enjoy.